Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered. ONE GOAL is not the account of a team fighting for a world championship before adoring crowds of fans. It is a book that encompasses the best of sports and why people love them, while also reminding us why sports matter.

The book, One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together ISBN# 9780316396554 in Paperback by Amy Bass may be ordered in bulk quantities. ONE GOAL by Amy Bass is a wonderful story, beautifully told in the spirit of Warren’s observation. Taking readers behind the tumult of this controversial team - and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding - One Goal is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion began to heal old wounds. Not just a great sports story, One Goal is a testimony to the beauty of the. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. Amy Bass hit it out of the park with her story of Somalis, soccer and Lewiston. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state - and ultimately national - glory.

One Goal by Amy Bass